Sharp County record., 1887-07-07

GENERAL BUTLER appeared before the
Interstate Commerce Commission on the
23d on behalf of the Burton Stock"Car
Company.
MILE. CAMPos, the Spanish countess
whose alleged abduction from Paris re-
Gently created such sensation arrived
at Dover, England, on the 23d, accom-
panied by her alleged abductor Tar
boeuf, who turns out to be her lover,
and whom she persists she intends 10
marry.
THERE was one new case of yellow fever
at Key West, Fla, on the 23i, ana Two
deaths occurred.
JOHN SUGLAND, on trial at Brattleboro,
Vt, for the murder Of Helen A. Burt,
whose body was found in the Connecti-
cut river on the 19yh committed suicide
by hanging in his cell on the afternoon OF
the 23d.
The French Consul at Cairo, Egypt is
the only foreign consul there who failed
to offer congra ulations to the British rep
resentative on the occasion Of the Queens
jubilee,
BY the wrecking of a train on the
Hawkesbury railway IN New South Wales,
on the 23d, seven persons were killed and
forty others injured. The accident was
caused by the failure of the brakes to
work while the train was going down an
incline.
In accordance with the terms Of re-
cent Pa pal bull, the investiture Of Rev.
Bernard J. McManus, rector OF st. Johns
Catholic Church, Baltimore, MI, as
monsigneur of the first class, occurred
on the 23L Cardinal Gibbons occupied
the throne.
FRANK HOPPER, the alleged forger from
Cincinnati, who was arrested in Toronto,
Ont, on the 22d, was taken before a
police magistrate on the 23l. Detective
Crawford was present in court, and Hop
per expressed his willingu ess to go back
with him. They left for Cincinnati the
same evening.
MATTHEW GUERNE, who was bitten by
dog with which he was playing at Haver- =
straw, N. Y, a month ago, and who was
seized with symptoms of hydrophobia on
the Goth, died on the 23l, after night OF
great agony. He was sixty years old,
unmarried and wealthy.
MAX MARCUS, aged fifty years, an ad-
vertising clerk in the Daily Ne'Cs office,
blew his brains out on the 23d. There was
no one in the Office at the time but the Of
fee boy, who, hearing the shot, rushed to
the scene and found the body stretched on
the floor. Death resulted almost i'm medi-
ately.
A BILL was introduced in the French
chambers on the 23d as an offset to the
German law under which members Of the
French Patriotic League were recently
convicted of treason at Leip5ic
PRESIDENTIAL postmasters' salaries
have been readjusted for the year &C
cordlng to earnings. For Missouri,
Arkansas, Kansas and Illinois they show
almost universal increase.
A. C. LANCE, who was formerly in the
employ of L. G. Maron, of Muskegon,
Mich, and left that place about two years
ago with $4,000 Of stolen funds, has been
captured He was inveigled across the
line from Canada to Vermont and ar
rested
AT the commencement exercises at
Buchtel College, Akron, O., on the 23d,
Mr. John R. Buchtel, founder of the col
lege, made it an additional gift of
s175,O0O. His entire gift now amounts to
S4)0,000
IT is now definitely stated that some
time in July the Seventh cavalry will be
transferred from Dakota and Montana to
the Department of the Missouri. This
will place General James W. Forsyth,
Colonel of the regiment General Sheri-
dams old-time chief of staff, in command
of the new cavalry and light artillery
school at Fort Riley, Kas.
WIN. K. VANDERBILT's yacht, the Alva,
will start from New York on the morning
of July 2, on a cruise around the world,
carrying Mr.. Vanderbilt and party OF
friends. The yacht will steam across the
Atlantic, up the Mediterranean Sea and
through the Suez Canal stopping, brst at
Malta.
AT the session of the Travelers' Pro-
tective Association in st. Louis, On the
23L, o. P. Pindell, of Xenia, O., waa THan-
imously rec ected president.